When I was referring to hours wasted it was the time writing programs to
account for the two character line ending as opposed to the single character
for mac and *nix.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Robert Lewko wrote:
> > I may be mistaken on this, but I think they use a \r for a line ending.�
> > At least its only a single character.� I will bet that hundreds of
> > thousands of hours have been wasted on dos/windows because they use \r\n
> > for their "newline".
> >
> It depends on the application.  Notepad++ and metapad are Windows
> programs that have no problem with either format.
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